{"id":2302,"date":"2013-06-08T19:04:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T09:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.natashabarr.com\/blog\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2019-04-07T21:25:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T11:25:49","slug":"to-japan-and-back-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/travel\/to-japan-and-back-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"To Japan and back – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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To Japan and back<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

At the start of May, our wait was finally over. Last year, we had booked our flights for a second trip back to Japan, giving ourselves time to research what we wanted to see while patiently waiting as many friends and colleagues went before us. But now it was our turn to head over for a 2 week (and a bit) holiday in the land of the rising sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We landed in Tokyo during the evening and travelled to our hotel with excitement. Over the next 10 days, we explored new areas such as Sunshine City<\/a> and Otome Road<\/a> in Ikebukuro, the Sword Museum<\/a> hidden in the Shinjuku suburbs as well as the W<\/a>arehouse District<\/a> and Candy Alley<\/a>. We spent nearly a whole day in Nakano Broadway<\/a> searching for figurines, saw a show at the Robot Restaurant<\/a>, visited the Imperial Palace<\/a> and an took a much awaited trip to the Ghibli Museum<\/a>. We were also lucky enough to spend a day at the Sumo tournament<\/a> and saw a evening performance of Kabuki<\/a>. This was all on top of visiting some of our favourite places like Harajuku, Shibuya, Asakusa and of course Akihabara. Before we knew it our time in Tokyo was over and we had bought two extra bags filled to the brim with souvenirs. But now we had catch the shinkansen across the country to Osaka. My birthday happened to fall on the same day so as a treat we ate Disney chocolates during the ride and later that night discovered pOundhouse<\/a> and had some delicious cake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Here are some of the pics from the Tokyo part of the trip ^_^. Second part coming soon…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Animate on Otome road in Ikebukuro<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Food at Seiryumon in Ikebukuro<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Buildings in Akihabara just outside the train station exit<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Hatsune Miku graphics<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Statues outside the Sword Museum in Shinjuku<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Shinjuku Station<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Tropicana can<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Ghibli Museum in Mitaka<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Drain Cover at the Ghibli Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Laputa Robot at the Ghibli Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Roof Garden at Ghibli Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Outdoor spiral staircase at the Ghibli Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Nakamise Shopping Street in Asakusa<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Sensoji Temple in Asakusa<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Kiddy Land in Harajuku<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Walking down into the Robot Restaurant Stage Area in Shinjuku<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Performance at the Robot Restaurant in Shinjuku<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Robots during the Robot Restaurant performance<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Robot Restaurant decor on the walkway down to the stage area in Shinjuku<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Childen’s day flags on the streets of Kawagoe near the warehouse district<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The bell tower in the warehouse district in Kawagoe<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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My omelette rice with a dog drawn on top at @home cafe<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Ticket into Tokyo Disneyland<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Disney castle at Tokyo Disneyland<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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At the May Sumo Tournament 2013 in Ryogoku<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The sumo arena<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Sumo Match<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Flags outside the Ryogoku Kokugikan<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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View from the North tower in the Metropolitan building in Shinjuku<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Some very cute cupcakes we bought at Chocoholic inside Ikebukuro station<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Angel Crepes in Harajuku along Takeshita Street<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Imperial Palace East Gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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At the Imperial Palace<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Last visit to Akihabara<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Disneyland chocolates we ate on the Shinkansen to Osaka for my birthday<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Cake we bought on my birthday at pOundhouse in Osaka<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the start of May, our wait was finally over. Last year, we had booked our flights for a second trip back to Japan, giving ourselves time to research what we wanted to see while patiently waiting as many friends and colleagues went before us. But now it was our turn to head over for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6227,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions\/6227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}